Michelle Roberts, September 30, 2003

HARDY MYERS
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Michelle Roberts
Reporter
The Oregonian
1320 S.W. Broadway
Portland, Oregon 97201-3489
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1162 Court Street NE
Justice Building
Salem, Oregon 973014096
Telephone; (503) 378-4400
TIY (503) 371>-5938
September 30, 2003
Re: Petition for Public Records Disclosure Order:
Oregon Department of Human Services Records
Dear Ms. Roberts:
PETER D. SHEPHERD
DEPUl'Y ATIORNEY GENERAL
This letter is the Attorney General's order on your petition for disclosure of records under
the Oregon Public Records Law, ORS 192.410 to 192.505. Your petition, which we received on
September 16, 2003, 1 asks the Attorney General to direct the Oregon Department of Human
Services (DHS) to make available non-redacted copies of2002 employee performance
evaluations for physicians employed at the Oregon State Hospital and identified in your request
to the agency. Yesterday, in a telephone call with Assistant Attorney General Kelly Carlson, you
excluded from your request any social security numbers contained in the evaluations. For the
reasons that follow, we respectfully deny your petition.
The Public Records Law confers a right to inspect any public records of a public body in
Oregon, subject to certain exemptions and limitations. See ORS 192.420. Any person who is
denied the right to inspect or to receive a copy of a public record of a state agency may petition
the Attorney General to review the record and determine if it may be withheld from disclosure.
ORS 192.450(1).
DHS responded to your request by providing partially redacted copies of performance
evaluations. We talked with Lydia Lissman, Administrator of the DHS Office of Human
Resources, about your petition. Ms. Lissman told us that DHS has agreed to send you
1 We appreciate your extending the time within which the law would otherwise have obligated us to respond.
Michelle Roberts
September 29, 2003
Page 2
unredacted copies of the 2002 evaluations that you requested. Because the agency has agreed to
disclose the requested records, we deny your petition as moot.
Sincerely,
~e Special Counsel to the Attorney General
AGS!3041
c: Lydia Lissman, Administrator, DHS Office of Human Resources

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HARDY MYERS
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Michelle Roberts
Reporter
The Oregonian
1320 S.W. Broadway
Portland, Oregon 97201-3489
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1162 Court Street NE
Justice Building
Salem, Oregon 973014096
Telephone; (503) 378-4400
TIY (503) 371>-5938
September 30, 2003
Re: Petition for Public Records Disclosure Order:
Oregon Department of Human Services Records
Dear Ms. Roberts:
PETER D. SHEPHERD
DEPUl'Y ATIORNEY GENERAL
This letter is the Attorney General's order on your petition for disclosure of records under
the Oregon Public Records Law, ORS 192.410 to 192.505. Your petition, which we received on
September 16, 2003, 1 asks the Attorney General to direct the Oregon Department of Human
Services (DHS) to make available non-redacted copies of2002 employee performance
evaluations for physicians employed at the Oregon State Hospital and identified in your request
to the agency. Yesterday, in a telephone call with Assistant Attorney General Kelly Carlson, you
excluded from your request any social security numbers contained in the evaluations. For the
reasons that follow, we respectfully deny your petition.
The Public Records Law confers a right to inspect any public records of a public body in
Oregon, subject to certain exemptions and limitations. See ORS 192.420. Any person who is
denied the right to inspect or to receive a copy of a public record of a state agency may petition
the Attorney General to review the record and determine if it may be withheld from disclosure.
ORS 192.450(1).
DHS responded to your request by providing partially redacted copies of performance
evaluations. We talked with Lydia Lissman, Administrator of the DHS Office of Human
Resources, about your petition. Ms. Lissman told us that DHS has agreed to send you
1 We appreciate your extending the time within which the law would otherwise have obligated us to respond.
Michelle Roberts
September 29, 2003
Page 2
unredacted copies of the 2002 evaluations that you requested. Because the agency has agreed to
disclose the requested records, we deny your petition as moot.
Sincerely,
~e Special Counsel to the Attorney General
AGS!3041
c: Lydia Lissman, Administrator, DHS Office of Human Resources